Press Releases
| January 11, 2012 | O&O AutoBackup: Easy data backup for everyone |
| Almost everyone knows this one: connect a USB flash drive to the computer, transfer data onto it, edit the same data on another machine and you have to save it once again. Not to mention how annoying it is if you forget a file. The free O&O AutoBackup automatically aligns files and folders on a PC with an external storage medium. It does so as soon as the medium is connected to the computer. And it only saves the data that has been changed or deleted in the meantime. Download (PDF) | |
| December 20, 2011 | O&O BlueCon 9: The Swiss Army knife for administrators |
| As a rule, a when a server or pc no longer starts it means a lot of work for an administrator. In some cases, he is left with no choice but to set up the system anew. When this happens, O&O BlueCon can repair systems, correct errors and recover lost data, all in a matter of minutes. This saves a substantial amount of time and money. Download (PDF) | |
| November 22, 2011 | O&O Defrag 15: Increase Windows Server productivity and reduce costs simultaneously |
| Fragmented files slow down company servers and reduce their availability. Access to the disks - depending on the degree of fragmentation – is made much slower, meaning valuable time is lost unnecessarily. O&O Defrag is optimized for company use, removing the brakes placed on productivity by fragmented files, and sinking costs by significantly delaying the need for new hardware. Download (PDF) | |
| October 25, 2011 | O&O DiskImage 6: Minimize Downtime and Costs |
| Setting up servers anew and trying to rebuild lost data costs companies huge amounts of time and money. By continually making images of such crucial information, this risk is avoided. Should a loss occur or an operating system crash, an image means the information can be quickly retrieved and made available again. Download (PDF) | |
| September 20, 2011 | O&O Defrag 15: Performance increase of up to 100% |
| With fully automatic defragmentation for the home user, professional settings for power users and application across company networks, O&O Defrag 15 ensures sustainable and maximum speed for any computer. Download (PDF) | |
| September 14, 2011 | O&O Defrag 14 – Optimizes SSDs, regardless of manufacturer |
| Fully automatic defragmentation for the home user, professional settings for power users and application across enterprise networks: O&O Defrag offers everything to ensure the sustainable and maximum speed of any computer. With O&O Defrag 14 it is now possible for the very first time to optimize SSDs regardless of the manufacturer, making SSD access much faster and minimizing the physical wear to the flash devices. Download (PDF) | |
| September 14, 2011 | The Windows 8 Technology Guarantee from O&O Software |
| O&O Software guarantees that its top products will function under Windows 8. This means that all affected products will be compatible with Windows 8 at release or an appropriate version will follow. O&O customers who at this point have a Premium Support Plus agreement will receive the product free of charge. All minor upgrades (small version changes, for example from 6.0 to 6.5) will of course remain free of charge. Download (PDF) | |
| September 06, 2011 | O&O DiskImage 6: File backup increases data security |
| The data backup program O&O DiskImage 6 is released with numerous innovations. Through the continuous imaging of data with O&O DiskImage, users can avoid the risk of a costly data loss. In the case of a defective operating system or data loss, the data is quickly available again, and the downtime of the machine is kept to a minimum. Download (PDF) | |
| August 16, 2011 | O&O DiskImage 6 – New file backup increases data security |
| Advance Notice: The data image program O&O DiskImage 6 to be released on 6th September, 2011 with numerous innovations. Continuous data protection with O&O DiskImage can totally negated the risk of a costly data loss. In the event of a defective operating system or data loss, all previous data are quickly available again, with downtime of the machine kept to a bare minimum. Download (PDF) | |
| July 07, 2011 | O&O Defrag 14.5: Methods triumph over zones |
| Rearrange file fragments and pack them together using Stealth, Space and Complete. The O&O Defrag 14.5 update puts the spotlight back onto the familiar Stealth, Space, and Complete methods of defragmentation. As an alternative, users can continue to select zone filing, which has been an integrated feature of O&O Defrag since version 12. Also new: An analysis of all drives is automatically done whenever the program is started. This update is available free of charge for all owners of O&O Defrag 14. Download (PDF) | |
| April 19, 2011 | O&O BlueCon 8 optimized for Hyper-V, Tablet PCs and Netbooks |
| For owners of Tablet PCs or Netbooks, a complete system crash presents very special problems. They have to laboriously create a bootable USB-Stick in order to make such a machine start capable again. The current version of O&O BlueCon not only offers all the tools to make a system bootable again, but also to create a bootable USB-Stick, from which, for example, a data recovery can be performed. Download (PDF) | |
| March 29, 2011 | O&O DiskRecovery 7: Professional data recovery at your fingertips – and without installation for emergencies |
| When data is deleted by mistake, users should not work on the computer anymore and ought to unplug it immediately. But how can that data be rescued if no data recovery program is installed? This is where O&O DiskRecovery 7 comes in as an "instant installation”. The data recovery can be started from a disk or network, thus preventing further loss of data. Download (PDF) | |
| March 22, 2011 | O&O SafeErase 5 Workstation and Server Editions: Data security was never so quick |
| Deleting hard disks is mostly very time-consuming. Now for the first time, with the new O&O SafeErase 5 Workstation and Server Editions, several storage volumes can be simultaneously deleted. Download (PDF) | |
| February 22, 2011 | Security Risk: Wrong deletion method |
| Most PC users know that a lot of data can be recovered, so they use special data deletion programs. But is all information really securely deleted? Using internationally recognized methods, O&O SafeErase deletes sensitive data so securely that a reconstruction, even with special software, is no longer possible. In the new version 5, an analysis function has been integrated which searches for data that was deleted non-securely. With just a few clicks, the computer can be cleaned to such an extent that unauthorized persons have no chance to dig out old files and misuse them. SSDs also are automatically detected and deletions made via the TRIM command, while at the same time making sure that resources are not wasted. The advanced report system and managing of lists for oft-used deletion procedures enhances the user-friendliness of O&O SafeErase further. Download (PDF) | |
| January 19, 2011 | O&O Defrag Free Edition |
| More performance for private computers – that is what the O&O Defrag Free Edition offers. Regular defragmentation ensures quicker access times, while also protecting the computer’s mechanics and extending the life of the hardware. But defragmentation is also important in terms of data security: In the event of a sudden loss of data, the probability that data can be restored is significantly higher when the computer is organized and uncluttered, i.e. defragmented. This also reduces the time needed to create a backup or an image of the data or computer. The technologies used in the Free Edition come from the multiple award-winning O&O Defrag. Download (PDF) | |
| November 09, 2010 | O&O RescueBox 14: The Data Savior |
| In the event of a data loss, it is irrelevant how it happened: the data are gone. The only happy victims are those who saved their data, for example with an imaging solution. By restoring an image, not only the data but the familiar working environment are available again within a very short time. Things are bad when the data loss was caused by a hardware failure. New hardware usually means that the image cannot be recovered, so the data backup can no longer be used. In this case, and when data is accidentally deleted, the O&O RescueBox 14 steps up as the "Data Savior”. Download (PDF) | |
| November 02, 2010 | O&O BlueCon 8: When a crash brings a system to its knees |
| The nightmare of every administrator is the complete crash of a Windows system. O&O BlueCon makes the necessary tools available to start the system again: O&O BlueCon is the knight in shining armor for Windows systems. Download (PDF) |